It was Jay's birthday yesterday. Thirty-three years old! Wow, how did that happen? I think he was 26 when we started dating. That's crazy. Well, I got out of work a bit earlier than Jay, which is unusual, so I took Hank for his evening walk. I found some really, really cool lichen.
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Here's me. I look surprised, but I'm not.
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Mr. Hank at one of the rock formations we found on the trail.
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I feel like I have to take Hank's picture at this spot every season. Here's the early spring shot.
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Hank found a box turtle shell. He's in love.
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After that, we were supposed to go out to Thai food to celebrate Jay's b-day, but instead we went to look at a house. Very, very exciting. This is a picture of the barn:
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And the garage:
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And the back of the house. We didn't take any pictures of the front - drats.
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Jay took this picture of me and I had no idea until I uploaded the pics from the camera. I was using a stick to play music on the four or five empty beer bottles lying in this urn thingy and he caught me!
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Then we went home and had some yummy birthday cake! Thai food will wait 'til Saturday night.
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Saturday morning brought me to Waltham to celebrate Carter Jay's 1st Birthday! We had pizza and a make-your-own-sundae bar and it was yum! Here's Steph showing Carter the bunny Jay and I gave him.
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Carter loved the doggie puppet - it was very cool. Thanks Steph and John!